What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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If murdering someone in cold blood didn’t make you stop to consider if you were the baddies, no amount of people chanting “shame” at you like it’s a Monty Python sketch is going to either

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One of the ways I'm dealing with AI slop at work is that when I'm giving feedback on the work I'm making sure to never assign the responsibility of the bad code to the AI. I'm directly saying that "this change that YOU made needs to be corrected". I'm always assigning the output of the AI to the person who put me in the position of reviewing the work. It is their responsibility to read the code that they're trying to review, they are responsible for 100% of the code, so they also get 100% of the blame when it's bad. If a change is confusing or nonsensical I'll ask "why did YOU make this change?". I'll never ask why an AI made a change, that we cannot know. All we can know is why someone thought it was acceptable to ship garbage, and we can assign them the responsibility for the garbage that they're willing to ship

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After nearly 3 hours of the most intense exercise the world has ever seen, the VERY UNFAIR timer on the elliptical machine still only showed 30 minutes. It is clear the crooked people at Precor, as as I like to call them, sleezecor, don’t want the world to know how hard I work out. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

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지귀연을 선해해서, 국회의장처럼 어떻게든 나중에 절차상의 문제로 시비 걸리지 않으려는, 피해자의 모든 권리를 최대한 보장해주는 것이라는 의견도 있으나, 진짜 택도 없는 소리지. 가난한 일반 시민이 법정에서 똑같은 대우 받으면 인정한다. 평범 이하의 사람들은 법에 규정된 대우와 존중도 제대로 못 받고 있을텐데.

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The Santa Cruz River, once bone-dry, now flows again through Tucson after treated wastewater was redirected into its channel, reviving wetlands and native life. We can thank reconciliation ecology for this - the practice of environmental restoration in human-dominated landscapes. Endangered Gila topminnow are breeding, cottonwoods have returned, and 40 native species have reappeared.
hcn.org/issues/57-10/inventing

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The Santa Cruz River, once bone-dry, now flows again through Tucson after treated wastewater was redirected into its channel, reviving wetlands and native life. We can thank reconciliation ecology for this - the practice of environmental restoration in human-dominated landscapes. Endangered Gila topminnow are breeding, cottonwoods have returned, and 40 native species have reappeared.
hcn.org/issues/57-10/inventing

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なんかもう我慢できずに言っちゃいますが、わたくし保住と姫ノ木あく( @aku_himenogi姫ノ木あく:verified_blue::role_bisyouzyo: )の所属する合同会社サッズ、数ヶ月前からMisskey Projectをスポンサードさせていただいております!

我々に安住の地をいただいた御礼みたいなアレですが、ともあれ今後とも何卒よろしくお願いいたします&さらなるご発展をお祈りしつつ少しでも力添えできれば幸いに存じます!

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そいえば弊社二名(保住・姫ノ木)、どっちもずっとエロゲ作ってきてライター外の仕事もこなしまくってるので、開発が思うように進まないとか、そもそもどう作ればいいか分からないとか、そういうかたがたのお力になれるのでもしお悩みを抱えてらっしゃったらお気軽にコンタクトいただけると未来が拓けるかもしれません。ご一考ください。

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a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.

i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour

it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.

and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.

so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.

so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.

we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.

it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.

enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️

paperback edition: mybook.to/EDuUf

DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems

The front cover of Mages & Modems: A Childhood Well-Wasted in the Golden Age of Personal Computers, Games & Internet Piracy - a confessional by vga256.

It shows a collage of computer and tech paraphernalia stacked on top of each other like a junk pile: a bright red telephone handset, a pile of 5.25 and 3.5-inch floppy disks, a mouse, a cocktail napkin from lefty's bar, two RAM simms.The rear cover of the book, showing a Carmen Sandiego-style letter from the ACME Detective agency. The letter has a picture of a spazzing out kid wearing a Just Do It sweater.

The letter reads:

ACME Detective Agency

Dear Detective #0294,

As discussed, I have enclosed a hardcopy of VGA256's journals discussed at the departmental briefing. The journal entries are chronological, and document the suspect's computing and gaming activities from the early 1980s to late 1990s - his childhood and adolescent years.

Each vignette is an introspection into the suspect's self-described obsessions, including but not limited to:

* IBM PC, Amiga, Apple ][, Macintosh, Tandy 

* MS-DOS, MacOS, Windows 3.1 & 95, UNIX 

* NES, GameBoy, Sega Genesis, TI-85 

* Modems, BBSes, CompuServe, Prodigy, ISPs 

* Warez, FTP, Usenet, IRC, Shell Accounts 

* Origin Systems, LucasArts, and Sierra On-Line

... and so on. The stories are a treasure trove of immoral and illicit activities that made him the dysfunctional adult he is now. I hope these will be of value in building your dossier on this delinquent.  
I expect a report on my desk by Friday.

Deputy Chief Conover

Brat & Punk Division
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